“Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.”
“There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.”
“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.”
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
“There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland.”
“Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable... Why prove that it had ever once been green?”